Demand Grows for Dyckman District Real Estate
Real estate circles report strong activity in Dyckman and Washington Heights as investors broaden the market from Broadway frontages to Fort George area parcels. Suburban-style development and subway access spur expectations of future value with many institutions selling old sites to fund relocations within the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dyckman
Cal Estate
Washington Heights
Broadway
Fort George
Realty Trading Spurts in City Districts
In brisk markets on West South Street and Fifth Avenue a four story dwelling sold last week. Miss Lillien Russell acquired 27 Fifth Avenue property through Pease & Elliman, while Mrs. Buchanan Winthrop purchased another four story and basement dwelling via Henry D. Winans & May.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S?th Street
Lillien Russell
Pease & Elliman
Fifth Avenue
Henry D. Winans & May
Buchanan Winthrop
87Th Street
M. S. Phillips
W. K. Stevenson
8Th Street
R. Lichtenstein
Henry Morgenthau
Isaac F. Richey
Henry D Winans & May
Central Fifth Avenue
West
D Street
Mary E. McLain
West Side real estate boom echoes late ninth decade
The piece notes rising Dyckman and Washington Heights values as speculation parallels West Side growth of 1880s. It recalls 1887 1888 era sales on Columbus Avenue 76th Street Edgecombe Road and Central Park West. Experts forecast spring gains and more marketing opportunities with subway-driven demand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Heights
Dyckman
59Th Street
Dyckmans District
Manhattan Island
West Side
Tore
Samuel Colcord
Columbus Avenue
Ninth Avenue
76Th Street
Alexander McGorley
Lt. Phillips &O
Ottinger Brothers Tought
103D Street
Central Park West
14Th Street
Newman Cowen
19Th Street
Harlem Ship Canal
Scholle Brothers
Charles L. Guilleaume
Broadway
Duckgeay
2D Street
Dyckmap
Central West Side
Washington Bridge
Real Estate Market Sees Heavy Activity Across Fifth Avenue
The article notes sustained real estate strength with over 10 million invested in a city district recently. It highlights multiple high value sales on Fifth Avenue including properties at Nos. 8 and 288, 329, and 5% Fifth Avenue, plus the Lyons Building and the Howard Building. Major trades involve Ashforth, Connick, Levy, and the Mason & Hamlin Company, with two elevator apartment houses planned on Broadway and 156th Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert B. Ashforth
Fifth Avenue
C. Grayson Martin
F. W. Sharp
Frank J. Cassidy
George & Heye
Andrew J. Connick
Lyons
Pease & Elliman
Jefferson M. Levy
Selction
Tucker, Speyers & Co
Isabella Marx
Jacob Dreler
Howard
47Th Street
Simon Frankel
John N. Golding
Mason & Hamlin Company
Fisher, Adler & Schwartz
Golding
Robert E. Dowling
Thomas R. Ball
Best & Co
Ball
Mr. Golding
35Th Street
Dodd, Mead & Co
Douglas Robinson
Charles S& Brown & Co
A. T.demarest & Co
3D Street
57Th Street
Broadway
McVickar-Gaillard Realty Company
United States Realty and Improvement Company
Francis H. Kimball
Clark
A. M du Mahaut
9Th Street
Evans
Astor
Washington Heights
Audubon Park
Max Marx
Sonn Brothers
Adolph Bendheim
Marx Syndicate
Fleischmann Brothers Company
156Th
Lth
156Th Street
157Th Street
Increase in Building Activity in Queens Last Month
The Queens Building report shows 334 new buildings planned last month with estimated cost of 1 282 133, alterations raising total to 1 360 182. Compared with last year 197 new plans and 55 alterations cost 671 370 and 59 736 respectively, a near doubling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Queens
Carl Berger
Queens Bureau of Buildings
William C. Demorest
The
Realty Trust
New Home for Aldine Association Opens May 1
The Aldine Association has leased half the top floor of the new Fifth Avenue Hotel site building for ten years at 23000 annually. The 16 square foot dining club space will seat six hundred with a roof kitchen. Officers are Frank Presbrey president Major C L Patten secretary and W I Lincoln Adams treasurer. Members include Arnold Constable Co W J Sloane Lord Taylor Tiffany Co Gorham Sterns Scribner D Appleton Dodd Mead Brentano’s Century Co. The group merges Aldine Club and Uptown Merchants Assn and opens May 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aldine Association
Fifth Avenue
24Th Streets
Frank Presbrey
C. L. Patten
W. I. Lincoln Adams
Aldine Club
Uptown Merchants’ Association
Arnold, Constable & Co
W. & J. Sloane
Lord & Taylor, Tiffany & Co
the Gorham Company
The
Greene Street Building Leased by Frederick Fox & Co
Frederick Fox & Co leased the six story building with basement at 19 20 Greene Street for the Meyer Guggenheim estate. Other tenants in the building include Love Scott Jaursch Lustig Brothers H B Isaacson Son Bernard Schoenfeld and Lazar Jacobsohn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick Fox & Co
Meyer Guggenheim
Greene Street
Love, Scott & Jaursch
Lustig Brothers
H. B. Isaacson & Son
Bernard Schoenfeld
Lazar Jacobsohn
Real Estate Valuation Talk By Irving Ruland
Irving Ruland vice-president of Ru land and Whiting speaks Tuesday night on The Standardizing of Real Estate Valuations at the West Side YMCA real estate school located at 32 West 57th Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Irving Ruland
Ruland & Whiting
West Side
Young Men's Christian Association
West 57Th Street
Realty Notes on Loft Refitting and Leasing Activity
Plans filed to refit the main floor of 2285 Eighth Avenue into a moving picture show for Edward Bach as lessee. Alterations at 831 West 41st Street for Selig Littman as owner. J H Knuber is architect. Thomas Daly buys 113 East 21st Street. William Hassler buys 625 West 135th Street. United Booking Offices of America signs six story Times Square lease in Times Square building for years at 150000 dollars. W H Whyte leases Ganoga Hotel to Rood Hotel Company at 25 37 East 27th Street opposite Madison Square Garden.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eighth Avenue
Edward Bach
West 41St Street
Selig Littman
J. H. Knuber
Thomas Daly
East 21St Street
Killian
William Hassler
West 135Th Street
H. Dpd
Baker & Brother
William S. Henessy
Times Square
44Th Streets
United Booking Offices of America
W. H. Whyte
Herman Lobel
Rood
Ganoga Hotel
East 27Th Street
Madison Square Garden
Yerkes Library Sale Set for This Week at Fifth Avenue Home
The Yerkes estate at 68th street and Fifth avenue center 80 Fifth avenue to be sold at public auction at Vesey Street rooms to satisfy a $242 296 90 claim by Mutual Life Insurance Co secured by mortgage. The schedule lists multiple properties auctioned by Bryan L Kennelly and Joseph P Day across Manhattan with various sums due and prior mortgages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles T. Yerkes
68Th Street
Fifth Avenue
Real Estate Exchange
Vesey Street
Bryan L. Kennelly
Mutual Life Insurance Company
Yerkes
Bryan L Kennelly
Sth
68Th St
Mutual Life Ins Co
Mar
Adelaide
Henrietta Sandler
Joseph Fuchs
Rosalsky
Sherman Pickford
Newell Ave
Elizabeth St
Wakefield
Rachel Markens
Jamison
Nicholas Aleinikoff
Herbert A Sherman
Ave
Frieda Gossett
Samuel Marx
West End Ave
West End
Gist St
Mamie Cowen Agt
Mess Realty Co
Strouse & S. Attys
Taxpayers Congress gains traction in Manhattan
Civic groups back a centralized taxpayers congress as Manhattan divisions grow. Brooklyn plans a similar setup under real estate broker leadership with Arthur B. Grutman coordinating division boundaries and chairmen to ensure broad representation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taxpayers’ Congress
Manhattan
Brooklyn
Brooklyn Board of Real Estate Brokers
Arthur B. Grutman
New York Real Estate Board of Brokers
Congress
Marble Portico Redesign Planned for Tiffany Building
McKim, Mead & White filed plans with Buildings Superintendent Murphy to remodel the Tiffany Building at Fifth Avenue and 37th Street. The marble steps will be removed, curb line set back seven and a half feet, platform steps rebuilt inside the portico, vaults under the sidewalk rebuilt with prism lights in marble work. Estimated cost is $10 000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McKim, Mead & White
Murphy
Tiffany
Fifth Avenue
37Th Street
Knickerbocker Trust
Platt Street Loft Building Planned Upgrade to Five Stories
Plans filed to rebuild the four story loft at 7 Platt Street into a five story structure. Improvements cost 8000 dollars for owners Henry W. Mann and George W. K. Taylor. Architects listed as Townsend Steinlo Haskell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
No. 7
Platt Street
Henry W. Mann
George W. K. Taylor
Townsend, Steinlo & Haskell
Smith Purchases Bronx Corner Building at Tremont and Washington
Clement H. Smith bought the interest of J C Julius Langbein and T J Higgins in the three story corner business building at Tremont and Washington avenues in The Bronx. Smith already owns the adjoining southwest corner enhancing control of two prime intersections in the area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clement H. Smith
J. C. Julius Langbein
T. J. Higgins
Tremont and
Washington Avenues
Bronx
Mr. Smith
Tremont
Real estate sales listed in Manhattan brokerage records
Shaw and Co sold No 446 40 East 179th Street two four story double flat houses to an investor. F R Wood and Co sold No 14 West 8th Street four story dwelling on lot 20x1022 feet for occupancy by buyer. Ferdinand Nagel sold No 64 West 168th Street three story dwelling to Patrick Callahan for occupancy. McVickar Gaillard Realty with Goodkind sold No 181 West 88th Street three story basement dwelling on 16.8x100.8 feet to Harlan P Wright. Emily McKay sold No 255 West 117th Street three story dwelling on 17x100.5 feet. John Donnelly sold No 107 East 26th Street three story basement dwelling. buyer owns 109 to 115 adjoining and controls 104.2x989 feet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Patrick Callahan
McVickar, Gaillard Realty Company
Lester P. Goodkind
Harlan P. Wright
West 88Th Street
Emily McKay
West 117Th Street
John Donnelly
Thomas J. Colton
East 26Th Street
Bronx construction and loans listed on Tremont and Grand avenues
City Mortgage Co funds William R Lowe Company and J C Gaffney Construction with loans totaling 17000 and 19400 for Bronx building plans at 178th Street near Honeywell Ave. Melvin Realty & Con Co and Dauber & Kreymborg architects suggest four to five story tenements valued around 29000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tremont Ave
Bronx
Bankruptcy petitions filed in U. S. District Court
The court received petitions from Joseph Lehmann a commission salesman of 231 West Sy street and E Osgood a salesman living at a hotel. Lehmann lists liabilities of 19272 41 and no assets. He is connected to Heones Lehmann Co in New Orleans with cash advances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States District Court
Joseph Lehmann
West Sy Street
Bank
Heones - Lehmann & Co
New Orleans
Oer E. Osgood
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Great West Side
Newtown
Far Rockaway
Jamaica
Flushing
Malba
North Shore
Aldine
Avenue Building
Yerkes Library Sale
Joseph P. Day
Walton Eve
1834
Augusta Isaacs
Doughty
J C Levi
Attys
Emanuel Blumenster
60Th St
Amsterdam
Herman Baker
Jacob Hyman
Lexington Ave
34Th St
of &Th
5Th Ave
Marks Rosenfeld
Solomon Rosenfeld
Harold Nathan
A S Norton
Wads— North Ave
W Cor
177Th St
Max Loewenthal
One Hundred and Seventy Seventh Street
Lenox Ave
Secor
Victoria Apt House
Lafayette Trust Co
Bilberberg & S Et al
A R Latson
J C Thompson
So Boulevard
James Young
Egt T J Mooney
Joyce & H
James Kearney
Belmont Ave
Pelham Ave
Thomas Foy
Margaret Lyons
Grant Squires
W S Burt
D P Ingraham & Co
4Th
Lafayette Ave
New Brighton
Staten Island
Gerhard J Obrig
Edward Martin
M A Stier
Kramer
H Hyde
Atty
A P Massey
Ervan L Kennelly
Want Realty Congress
New Platt Street Project
Co. H. Smith
Transit For
the Metropolitan District
Tribune
Nassau St
City Hall Park
Brooklyn Bridge
Ruland & Whiting CO
Beekma York
Calle Deal
Brophet's Realty Exchange
Grand St. Denbury
Conn
Long Island Real Estate
Long Island
Realty Club
Richmond Borough
Ha _SHARRET
Reel Estate
Terrace
Port Richmond
Qharon
G Conn
Archibald Fos Millerton
N. Y
Ianaan
Archibald C. Foss
Millerton
Akeville
North Mainet
South Norwalk
South
Norwalk
Archibald C Foss
North Main Street
Eee
North Main St
Darbyshire
Rochester
East 31St St
5Th Avenue
E. H. Chatillon
Aberdeen West
D. P. Hathaway
Gainsborough Studios
Central Park
New York
Mr. Miller
West 59Th St
le Peres Corner Park
New Jersey Real Estate
Ontclair
Lackawanna Station
R B Draper
Martinique
Herald S
Victoria
17Th Street
Slater & Morrill
South Braintree
Mass
Thomas S. Napier
Spring Street
West 70Th Street
Florence de G. Shaw
West Fist Street
Napier
Hamburg
Enn
Binghamton
Banard
Lotte
George J. Robinson, Jr
Patrick J. Brophy
Boston
Charles Kramer
Chrystie Street
Yale Waist Company
Supreme Court
Girtion
Algernon S Norton
West 34Th
West 9Th Reet
Exchange Salesroom
Vesey St
N.Y City
Plaintie
Attor
Herbert A. ‘Sherman
Charles Welde
Park
Alfred S. Brown
William St
Herbert SH Rman
City
Readstreet
Walker’s Sons
Cute
Antic City
Thrington Thigh
Hendrickson
Aet
Ton ST
Jaz Paineorrows
65Th ST
State Board of Regents
DRAKE
Berlitz
Madison Square
Harlem
Lenox Ava
Maxwell's
Froebel Normal
Howe
New Jersey Military Academy
Freehold
N. J
Jallade
Charles
Young Ls
Gordon Winston School For
Young Ladies
Lize
Stearx “Oe
Emine
Ofta Naimska
Leschetizky
Mary W. Somerville
Westpools
Agence
M. J. Young-Fulton
Union Square
Mademoiselle Amyot
Teachers’ Agency
Wer
Plaza
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